Overview
Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian, Dr. Robert Manning, a famous surgeon. When Robert, Kate, and her younger sister Mary Lou visit New York, where the doctor wishes to conduct medical experiments, the superstitious Kate goes to the home of a fortune-teller named Stella Hill. Stella, whose principal business is white slave trafficking, drugs Kate and forces her to work in a "den of vice," run by Stella and her accomplice Jimmy Bristol, where she contracts syphilis and goes insane. Robert, Detective Ellis, and a lawyer named Billy Meredith rescue Kate, who recovers her sanity but remembers nothing of her bondage.
| Actor | Age then | Age now | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 25 | October 28, 1939 (46) | |
 | 27 | September 18, 1949 (59) | |
 | 36 | May 14, 1953 (71) | |
 | - | - | |
| 32 | October 10, 1928 (43) | |
 | 31 | February 24, 1973 (86) | |
 | 24 | December 5, 1949 (55) | |
| 69 | March 11, 1934 (85) | |
 | 21 | March 2, 1980 (83) | |
| 53 | February 9, 1944 (79) |